: Like many Quebeckers, I worry about the degree to which Philippe Couillard has managed to rid the party of the stench of corruption in the few months that he has been leader. Like many people on the Left, I don’t see him as having in any significant way arrested the rightward drift that Jean Charest imprinted upon the Liberals. And as a civil libertarian, I am not ready to forgive the Liberals . . . for having enacted repressive legislation aimed at stemming the protests that gripped the province in the Spring and Summer of 2012. The PQ has over the course of the last few months placed itself beyond the pale. They have stoked the flames of xenophobia through their so-called “Charter of Values” in ways that will take the province years to recover from, whatever the electoral fate that the party meets on April 7. The defeat of the PQ is a crucial first step toward that recovery. If I lived in a riding where voting for the Liberals increased the chances of unseating a péquiste, I would do so despite my misgivings without hesitation.—Daniel Weinstock, Whither the Left in Quebec, In Due Course (March 29, 2014)
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 01:37:28 +0000
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